Word: daintier
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...trim brunettes. Lefthander Betty has the stronger game, Peggy the greater finesse. "She's like a bulldog," says Peggy of Betty's play. "She drives in under an opponent's racket or swings without regard for anything but hitting the ball. I'm daintier. I play a softer game...
...millinery field, one leading designer spends upwards of $50,000 a year just making sample hats for his showrooms, may take a full day to make just one original. In shoes, the daintier the product the more tedious, exacting and expensive the work. And while it may seem that women get stuck when they spend $25 or more for a pair of shoes that will last only a few months, it is not easy for manufacturers to get rich on the deal. I. Miller, one of the leading makers of expensive women's shoes, makes a mere 4% gross...
...their hill rarely sniff the full exhalation of the piggeries; but the town's neighbors do, and so do millions of travelers who pass through by rail or over the New Jersey Turnpike. For years the authorities have tried to make New Jersey's Moonbeam a little daintier. Further expansion of pig farming was forbidden in 1948 (with the result that the pigs became more & more crowded). Reluctant industry was urged to move to Secaucus, and even now plans are under way to build a race track there, possibly on the theory that horses smell better than pigs...
...Entire Family. Peripatetic Hearn was completely bowled over by Yokohama -"A world where everything is upon a smaller and daintier scale . . . where all movement is slow and soft, and voices are hushed." His shortness no longer embarrassed him: Japan was a "realization . . . of the old [folklore] dream of a World of Elves." He loved Japanese ideographs, Japanese "delicacy," the "atmospheric limpidity" of the Japanese climate...